SHEFFIELD PEOPLE’S THEATRE RETURN TO THE CRUCIBLE STAGE WITH THE WORLD PREMIÈRE OF
SONGS FROM THE SEVEN HILLS
CRUCIBLE
A Sheffield People’s Theatre Production
World Première
SONGS FROM THE SEVEN HILLS
By John Hollingworth, Claire McKenzie and Scott Gilmour
18 July – 21 July
Director: Emily Hutchinson; Designer: Kevin Jenkins
Movement Director: Darragh O’Leary; Musical Director: Matthew Malone
Lighting Designer: Gary Longfield; Sound Designer: Nick Greenhill
Sheffield People’s Theatre have devised this brand new musical, bringing to life stories inspired by the people of this proud city of steel. The community theatre company take to the stage with a heartfelt ode to our vibrant and vital city built on seven hills.
Thirty people were interviewed to create Songs from the Seven Hills, and the company is comprised of 51 cast members and six band members – the youngest cast member is 13 years old, and the oldest is 91 years old. They have spent 169 hours in rehearsals, and the set has taken 72 hours to build. The production itself uses 350 props, and 125 costumes.
Seven Hills, Six Stories, One City…
Noisemaker is the award-winning writing partnership of actor/ writer Scott Gilmour and composer Claire McKenzie. Both graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the pair work throughout the UK and internationally creating innovative, original work to challenge the expectations of musical theatre. As individuals, they have worked with a wide variety of companies including National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Dundee Rep, Citizens’ Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Channel 4 Films and the BBC. Noisemaker credits include Atlantic (Assembly/AMTP Northwestern, Chicago/Royal Conservatoire of Scotland- Herald Angel Award Winner 2017), Little Red and The Wolf (Dundee Rep Theatre – Nominated for Best Production for Children and Young People UK Theatre Awards and Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2016), The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Forest Boy (NYMF, New York/The Other Palace, London/Edinburgh Fringe Assembly – Winner of S&S Award for Best Musical in Development, The NYMF 2016 Publishing Award), The Girl Who (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse/Edinburgh Fringe Assembly), Freakshow(The Roundhouse/ The Arches – Winner of the Scottish Daily Mail Drama Award 2012).
John Hollingworth‘s first full-length play, Multitudes, played at the Tricycle Theatre in early 2015 under the direction of the theatre’s Artistic Director, Indhu Rubasingham. He was subsequently awarded attachments to the National Theatre Studio and the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Other work includes Come to Where I’m From(Paines Plough), and – as co-editor with Max Stafford-Clark – a new version of Rita, Sue and Bob Too (Out of Joint). Also an actor, he is perhaps best known for playing Captain Henshawe across three series of Poldark onBBC One, and can currently be seen in The Norman Conquests at Chichester Festival Theatre.
Emily Hutchinson is Creative Projects Manager at Sheffield Theatres. She trained at Central School of Speech and Drama. Hutchinson has a number of directing credits at Sheffield Theatres, most recently the Sheffield People’s Theatre productions of What We Wished For and A Dream by Chris Bush, Hospital Food by Eugene O’Hare and Hearts by Luke Norris, which transferred to National Theatre’s Temporary Space in July 2014 as part of the National Theatre Connections Festival.
Season at a Glance
LOVE AND INFORMATION
Until 14 July
SONGS FROM THE SEVEN HILLS
18 July – 21 July
STEEL
13 September – 6 October 2018
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
27 September – 20 October 2018
CLOSE QUARTERS
25 October – 10 November 2018
KISS ME, KATE
7 December 2018 – 12 January 2019
RUTHERFORD AND SON
8 – 23 February 2019
HANG
21 February – 9 March 2019
STANDING AT THE SKY’S EDGE
15 March – 6 April
West End:
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE
Apollo Theatre
Booking until April 2019
Twitter: @crucibletheatre @SheffieldLyceum